Photography Friday: Stefen Chow 赵峰

The photographer Stefen Chow 赵峰 has unveiled his series “The Poverty Line” as well as a brand new work commissioned for the Parisian festival Les Nuits Photographiques (17 September -12 December 2015), during which this interview was conducted.“The Poverty Line” (started in 2010) is a visual project created in collaboration with the economist Lin Hui-Yi. It contextualizes the notion of poverty across several continents and portrays the food items that poor and impoverished people can afford each day.Photography of China is proud to announce a new series of interviews in collaboration with Joseph Johnson. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified when our latest videos go up!Watch the first one below with photographer Stefen Chow:

And check out more of Stefen Chow’s work at his website.Photography Friday is a regular feature from Shanghaiist in association with Photography of China, Marine Cabos’s fantastic trilingual blog about photography and photographers in China.